Friday, June 11, 2010

Charles Brown: What have I done to you?Fanny Brawne: You do nothing to me...or for me. And that's how I'd prefer to keep it.Charles: What?Fanny: Your offense is to my fashion, Mr. Brown. To which I'm so helplessly slavish.Charles: I have been ill quoted.

Fanny: "Her obsession with flounce and cross stitch"...?Charles: Cross stitch. Miss Brawne, I don't even know what that means.Fanny: I feel the same way about your poems Mr. Brown. I know nothing of what they mean. They puff, smoke, dissolve... leaving nothing but irritation.

[Great moments in screen bitchery #931]

Abbie Cornish (seamstress) and Paul Schneider (poet) butt heads in Bright Star (2009). And this is their first exchange! They'll be at each other's throats for the next 2 hours. [Bright Star, so horrifically snubbed in Oscar World, won 3 gold and 4 bronze medals at this site's 10th annual awards ceremony.]

I'm not a romantic at heart. Only one film romance has actually made me full on melt: A Matter of Life and Death. Apart from that, films focused on it interest me, but the ones I think work have varying degrees of cynicism about the romantic process (not designed to melt hearts.) Marty, Three Colours: Red, Being John Malkovich. These get me on their side. What doesn't: Things like Pretty Woman, Wedding Crashers and The 40 Year Old Virgin, that assume both love and lust are needed for a workable and long lasting relationship. Just once someone make a film about a relationship like that.

I was so pleased to see this incredibly beautiful film so well represented in your awards, after being so disheartened by its inexcusable awards season shutout. The nearly universal snubbing of Cornish's stellar work particularly stung, but perhaps more perplexing is the dismissal of the art direction and cinematography. The scene in which Fanny sits on her bed and lets the breeze wash over her is basically how I experienced this entire film. Just gorgeous.

Lovely choice of scene. One of the reasons I love Abbie so much here is because she knows how striking Campion's words are and she doesn't overdo the bitchiness (for want of another word). I love two moments immediatley after in particular. When she tells him:"It's my finding in the business of disturbing you're the expert" which she immediately follows with the line - "I'm praising him" and of course the "my stitching has more merit and admirers than your two scribblings put together." She has such a way with line delivery.

Bright Star is my favourite film from last year and I only managed to watch it through dvd. It made me cried so much:(lolIt's one of the most intimate, touching, romantic movie. Thank you for recognizing it. If romantic-comedies nowadays are made with this kind of sohpistication and taste, there will be more people believing in love.....:)

I must say i don't get the fuss for the film as such and especially a never once convincing period perforamcne by cornish,she is fine but she seemed so modern to me make up hair colour,something was off.

schneider was wonderful and it would 've been nice for the academy not to be lazy and look beyond flat unsinpired work by damon,hammy ott thinking on the job performances like tucci or career capping first time noms for unworthy lead thesping that did not win anyway.